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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why do they sell popcorn in the cinema?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Also weddings and asking just too much of your friends and family

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm currently out of office.

0:04.3

An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.

0:14.4

So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. Yours, Toby. Take your holiday as seriously as British

0:26.6

Airways holidays take your holiday. Atul protected.

0:30.0

Stria with James O'Brien.

0:32.8

Four minutes after 12 is the time. You're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. Is it? We do miss

0:37.2

year? We did it last week, didn't we?

0:39.0

It just feels like we haven't done it for a while.

0:41.2

There's one member of the team today who's never done it before, and I have to tell you,

0:44.7

between friends, poor fellas having kittens, you'll be fine pushing those buttons, ringing those bells.

0:56.3

Just make sure you've got the had a lullia chorus ready and possibly a Rayliota.

0:59.9

Sorry, it was a private conversation between me and a young colleague,

1:02.3

stepping up to the plate in spectacular fashion this afternoon.

1:05.3

Now, for everybody else.

1:06.4

The way this works is the radio equivalent of those newspaper and magazine features you've seen

1:11.9

where somebody writes in and says why do we do this where does that come from what's this why

1:15.5

woo who the five w's in that play i saw about newspapers a nice reminder who what why where

1:20.9

when and any anything goes you can even have a whither or a wence if you're so minded occasionally

1:26.0

we even encounter a where for point is you've got a question and or a wince if you're so minded occasionally we even encounter a where

1:27.5

for point is you've got a question and it needs an answer so you ring in and you ask it and you'll

1:32.9

see if you're new to this how wide the goalposts are how far apart the goalposts are it can be a very

1:37.1

complicated scientific question or it could be an incredibly simple um question about why do we do

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